Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Katsumi Yamaoka: 

 > >>>>> Mike FABIAN wrote:
 > > Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:
 > 
 > >> It seems that the stable version of emacs-w3m doesn't actually
 > >> compile with XEmacs 21.5 anyway, independent of this problem; is
 > >> SuSE using another version?
 > 
 > > We are using the latest CVS HEAD of emacs-w3m.
 > 
 > > The problem was reproducible with CVS HEAD from 20070717 and also with a
 > > CVS HEAD from yesterday. CVS of emacs-w3m is here:
 > 
 > >     cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.namazu.org:/storage/cvsroot login
 > >     (CVS password empty)
 > >     cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.namazu.org:/storage/cvsroot co emacs-w3m
 > 
 > An extraction of emacs-w3m that causes exactly the same problem
 > with the most recent XEmacs 21.5 is attached below.  There are
 > a defsubst and two defcustom's.  After the byte compilation, the
 > first defcustom has "#1=#FOO" and "#1#"s, but the second one
 > has only "#1#"s.  Because of this, the elc file cannot be loaded.

Katsumi, Mike and Dieter: this change
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs?cs=e8f448f997ac 
fixes the problem for me. I’d appreciate confirmation of this from your end,
if you have the time to check.